Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
May 2007 · Encounter Books
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What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm which sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of 'dead white European males'. He is robust in defence of traditional architecture and figurative painting, critical of the fashionable relativists and urgent in his plea for our civilization, which more than ever stands in need of the self-knowledge and self-confidence that are the gift of serious culture.
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Paolo Merolla
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September 13, 2015
As usual Scruton doesn’t mince his words and in clear language lashes the idea that there is no longer a difference between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture: Bach is better than 50cent. Furthermore, he defends the ‘canon of the arts’ compared with the pretentious avant garde of the twentieth century: also Rembrandt is better than abstract art, according to Scruton. So… enough to talk about!
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Roger Scruton lives in Virginia and Wiltshire, England. Roger Scruton has published numerous titles, and is a renowned philosopher and writer.With growing concern over the melting pot' Scruton observes that the west is not losing it's culture but gaining independence.
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